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Here is a collection of ways to structure and support students self-directed learning.
Explore this link to see "What happens when 80 10th grade students watch, analyze, and reflect upon 640+ TED Talks in pursuit of the answer to the question, “What Matters (To Us)”?
Based upon Google's 20% time, Genius Hour or "Passion Project" creates a space for students to explore their passions.
Creating Individual Student Playlists
Examples of Pulling Together Learning Resources from Multiple Sources from Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World
1. BetterLesson is a curriculum-sharing platform containing more than 300,000 teacher-contributed Pre-K through 12 lessons that users can browse and search using key words and tools for creating collections. BetterLesson is free to individual teachers; school districts pay a subscription fee.
2. Gooru is a nonprofit organization with a free platform for students and teachers that offers access to a curated collection of 50,000 open educational resources for grade 5 through 12 mathematics and science.These resources range from digital textbooks to individual animations to games, all tagged to the Common Core State Standards and California science content standards they address.
3. LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video explanations, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a Common Core Standard, starting with math in grades 3 through 9. The site offers more than 2,000 lessons created by teachers using a Web-based application. Lessons are free.
4. Open Tapestry is a website that allows users to find, organize, and share education resources. Users can adapt a variety of content retrieved on the website to suit their individual needs, as well as contribute new information. Users may also integrate Open Tapestry into their learning management systems.
5. PowerMyLearning is a platform developed by nonprofit CFY formerly (Computers for Youth) that has more than 1,000 digital learning activities. Free to teachers, PowerMyLearning lets them build a playlist of activities and add their own instructional text to introduce them.
6. Share My Lesson is an online portal created by the American Federation of Teachers that now contains more than 250,000 digital learning resources reviewed and prepared by 200 teachers. The lessons include OERs that can be remixed, reused and reposted.The portal also includes a community where teachers can pose questions or reactions to the resources.
Stand Alone Courses -
Skillshare - "Skillshare is an online learning community to master real-world skills through project-based classes. Our mission is simple: provide universal access to high-quality learning"
Udemy - "We’re the world’s online learning marketplace, where 4 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography–and much, much more. Each of our 18,000+ courses is taught by an expert instructor, and every course is available on-demand, so students can learn at their own pace, on their own time, and on any device."
Coursera - "Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free."
edX - "EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT."
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